whenever i see a comment like this i feel the same way when i see a comment about 4chan, ive been to both 9gag and 4chan (for science) and they were nothing like what people here say, besides if 9gag was all ragefaces and old memes then why is it posts that get reposted from 9gag here arnt ragefaces?

I dont like 9gag mostly because people i know are like, i saw this funny thing on 9gag, who cares it was 9gag, just say i found this funny picture online. Might just be me though, but i dont give any ***** where the **** you found it, just tell me the joke.

It's not that Rage Comics are old, rather that they're very simple humour. If it was just because they were old then we'd probably be seeing something replace them. Something equally stupid and witless. However instead we've seen the opposite as nothing has come to replace them and people are expected to put far more work into their humour rather than relying on in-jokes (which is essentially what a meme is.)

I think it's less how we want the internet to see us and more how we want to see ourselves. FJ has carved out quite a unique community online in that we sit somewhere in the upper middle. We're not as extreme as 4Chan but we're not softcore either. We care about the community but we'll also tear each other apart if it's funny.

Funnyjunk is terrible for humor, I come here now to search through the Morbid Channel for the odd scary stories or going through the great fact content that is posted here a lot.

I can't remember the last time i saw some OC on the front page, or at least anything that made me laugh that much.
I wish people would stop calling rage comics cancer, when they used to be the "in" thing on FunnyJunk, there was OC left right and centre all over the front page. People loved that ****

Then the white names came along and started calling everything cancer, even though most of the stuff was created on the FJ comic creator at the time.

I actually like our community; seriously, we're more entertaining than /b/ is at the moment, the only reason it's not seen that way is because very few of us are anonymous and thus it takes a bit of the fun out of being a douche

I used to lurk 9Gag for about 2 years before discovering FJ. I knew about 4Chan and was a regular EDiot on Encyclopedia Dramatica before 9gag. I don't think that it's as bad as many make it out to be. And the average age of the posters was around 23 from my best judgement. Judging from the Facebook pics of the posters in all my time there, I'd only seen 3 people who looked under 20. The majority of the posters were from South America or somewhere in Europe, and they were mostly College educated(medical students, Engineers etc...). Eternal downthumbs

Eh, in college but they seem to lurk on the comments wanting to start a fight. Also a lot of arrogance from college students, not graduates.

They claimed to have no soul, but if you bash something other than the West, then a huge flame war will ensue and then the real 9Gaggers will appear, foreigners who can barely speak English that use copypastas as arguments. Anti-West/American sentiment is rampant on 9Gag.
And that kinda sums up 9Gag, copying from others after its been viral for a while. I know this, because my friends will show me a few funny pics from 9Gag, but I don't laugh since I already saw it on FJ, Reddit, or 4Chan the month before. They just use it because of the scroll feature to skim through the pics faster.

Pic pulled from the archives in the 9Gag classics section. Its ok to ridicule dead soldiers as long as they're US or UK, but if its not, then 9gaggers will begin the copypasta flame war.

Your whole argument seems to revolve around their hate for the all holy all innocent west/America. I'm American I highly even doubt that the average "9gagger" as people call them knows about "FJ, Reddit, 4Chan", if I remember correctly comments mentioning these sites are filtered out. You seem to only know of 9Gag from Facebook. It's like judging 4Chan or FJ from their highly "cancerous" facebook pages.

And my argument revolves around the senseless flames wars and copypastas from "college students" and non-comprehensible foreigners. Please don't assume I think the West or America is holy or innocent. I expect that type of thinking from a 9Gagger.

When did I say I know 9Gag only from FaceBook? I saw FaceBook funny pics before I saw them on 9gag. Then I realized they copied the photos from their FaceBook friends pages and reposted it on 9Gag.

Actually, I don't dislike 9Gag because I need something to hate. I dislike 9Gag because I have standards in my comedy that 9Gag just doesn't live up When it does it is rarely to the same level as what I find on FJ. FJ will usually have me snorting or laughing pretty often and if not I'll be having interesting conversations in the comment section. But every once in a while you find that one, beautiful comment or content that makes you totally lose your **** and 9Gag just doesn't do that.

I don't hate 9Gag because it's not FJ. I dislike it because I feel bad for the people on it who don't know what they're missing on a site with a strong community like FJ.

Come on, so many of the front page posts are pictures that float all over the internet, it's not like they are orignally from here, no site is better compared in content, because it's all the same, except for some little things.
And sorry but FJ doesn't really have a strong community, where do you see that?
It's just discussions on some topics like on every page.

What really is true, is that comments sometimes really are very entertaining, mostly because you can post pictures, that's not possible on 9gag (or is it? idk).

Look I'm not trying to make FJ look bad, I'm on here myself, but come on most of the sites like 9gag, Memecenter, Memebase are very similar, it's not possible to say this or that one is the best, because everyone of them has it's own community which naturally thinks better of themselves in comparison to other communities.
I just don't like how people from those different communities try to make the others look bad.

Fair points but you hit on the reason why FJ is the site I go The comments are really entertaining. No other site I've been to has the same balance of comedy and maturity that FJ has. 4Chan you have to wade through a lot of crap before you find a really good thread.

Yes, the content floats around the web but that does that matter? I've seen a decent amount of funny OC on FJ and it's mostly been in the comments section. I've had conversations with people from all round the world and I often get to talk in-depth about fandoms I enjoy, science, politics and so on. The community has also been getting more and more mature of late. Granted, it's still silly but maturity is the ability to be silly and be serious when the moment calls for it and unlike most other sites I see that here.

Also, out of all the sites it has one of the best formats. The colour-scheme and layout are just appealing to look at.

I don't say FJ is the best, I say it's my favourite (though I do say it's better than 9Gag for the reasons I previously stated) and unlike people who just justify it because they want to be in the right like the whole ******** of the console wars, I have my reasons and I know what they are.